Sloethu (world)

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Sloethu/Shallows (Dagudashaag 0520)
Classic Era (1116)
C69A552-C
StarportC Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel
Size6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g)
Atmosphere9 Dense (tainted)
HydrographicsA Water World 100%
Population5 Moderate (700 thousand)
Government5 Feudal Technocracy
Law2 Low Law (no energy weapons)
Tech LevelC Average Stellar (robots)
See also UWP
System Details
Primary M2 V
Planetoid Belts 1
Gas Giants 3

A non-industrial water world located in the Shallows Subsector of Dagudashaag. Sloethu is a member of the Imperium. The system contains a Scout Base.

Sloethu is the inner satellite of a Denerta, a large gas giant. The planet is covered by an ocean of ice tens of kilometers deep. Below the ice a combination of pressure, salinity, and heat from geothermal activity create liquid water. The glaciers and ice floes are constantly moving, buckling, and folding into ridges. in places chains of volcanic peaks protrude above the ice, and on the largest is Pelisad, the world's starport·city. The colony has a long history of scientific research, specializing in life support systems. The life support systems in Pelisad uses a combination of mechanical and bioengineering organic technology.

The Sloethu system contains unusually high concentrations of meteoric and cometary debris, and many of the bodies pass through Denerta's orbit. As yet there have been no major impacts on the world, although scientists are monitoring a massive body named Icarus and predict an eighty percent chance that it will hit the gas giant or one of its moons sometime in the early 1130s.

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